The film, like the novel, is a sustained meditation on connection, human possibility, the elusive dream of happiness and the sometimes seductive call of death.

It was described by the board as "a sustained autobiographical meditation on family connections and missteps."

To base a novel on a sustained meditation goes against the spirit of the 20th century, which no longer likes to think at all.

This beautiful show documents those uses and offers a sustained meditation on the shadow play of picture-taking and politics (Cotter).

"At the End of the Open Road" (1963) is a sustained meditation on the American character in the second half of the 20th century.

It is a sustained meditation on race relations and opportunity in the United States.

If the album has its sentimental glitches, it still coheres as a sustained meditation on time and loss.

As the film's images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality.

The kind of sustained meditation or reconsideration that is expected in the catalogue for a major museum retrospective is absent.

All of this sustained meditation had begun to dissolve my usual ways of coping: relentless activity, constant talk, ruminating, regretting, rationalizing and planning.